It's the first of April and WestJet has announced its commitment to keeping things Canadian with a new feature you didn't even know you wanted: metric time.
"We recognize that as a Canadian airline we're missing an important component of truly being Canadian and that's a broader adoption of the metric system," said Richard Bartrem, vice president of communications at WestJet Airlines, in a YouTube video.
"Effective today, we're converting all our scheduled and departure times to metric time. We found some guests were frustrated with a.m. and p.m., missing that important business meeting or ruining the family vacation simply by showing up at wrong time."
If you're perplexed as to what metric time exactly is, fret not. This is just another one of the airline's April Fool's pranks.
It should be noted though that metric time is an actual, albeit archaic, form of telling time. The system uses seconds and the base unit with metric prefixes slapped on top. So for example, instead of minutes or hours, you're now working with decaseconds and hectoseconds.
It works like this: take your time then convert it to military time. Next, multiply the hours by 60 and add the minutes. Then take your total and divide by 1.44 and presto, you now have your flight time in metric time.
Still confused? Well, Bartem says you shouldn't be: "It's as simple as switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius."
Sure, sure Bartem. Just let us know when we can reallyfly next to monkeys and geese in economy class.
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